The offender is described as a white male in his 20s wearing a dark-coloured bob hat, a dark hooded top and lighter coloured trousers or tracksuit bottoms.

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No one would say how much the four investors actually invested, although Red Hat CEO Bob Young, sitting on Torvalds' left during the panel discussion, downplayed the financial significance.

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"It would level the playing field and allow programmers to write applications just as good as Microsoft's, " says Bob Young, founder and chairman of Red Hat, a Microsoft rival.

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Your hat certainly goes off to Buckner, fielding questions from Bob Costas and Tom Verducci while sitting next to the man forever linked to him in baseball history, Mookie Wilson, who hit the famous squibber.

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As if to underscore the rift, this month has seen the formation of a new Australian Party by Bob Katter, a northern Queensland independent MP who is often ridiculed by city dwellers for his trademark ten gallon hat.

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